Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
ANAIS NINAnything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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